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July 16, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Senators urge German bank to stop enabling antisemitic BDS campaign

Two powerful US Republican senators, both of whom ran significant campaigns for the presidency of America in 2016, weighed in on Thursday against a German bank for aiding the Boycott, Divestment...

July 13, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘No Jew in Germany’: German police assault Israeli professor

The police in the West German city of Bonn allegedly mistakenly beat an Israeli philosophy professor after a German of Palestinian origin attacked him because he was wearing kippah. Acco...

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian Jewish community leader slams chancellor for courting Iran

The president of the Jewish community in Vienna blasted Austria’s Chancellor S...

June 19, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Bank Enabling BDS may Violate its Ethical Code of Conduct

The pro-Israel group Action Forum Israel (Aktionsforum Israel) in Germany has released an eye-popping report on its website, questioning whether the Bank for Social Economy violated its internal...

June 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. and U.K. Bands Boycott Berlin Event Due to Israeli Embassy Donation

US singer John Maus announced his withdrawal from the Berlin Pop-Kultur music festival due to pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. He is the fourth musical act t...

June 3, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

United Israel Appeal leaving BDS-enabling bank in Germany

Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the premier Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has announced that its German branch wil...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian government may bar Kuwait Airways because of anti-Israel bias

Kuwait Airways is slated to start flights in and out of Vienna in June. However, Austrian Economics Minister Margarete Schramböck said on Wednesday she could not rule out deny...

May 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jewish shareholders call for probe into bank’s BDS-linked accounts

The Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany – a part owner of the Cologne-based Bank for Social Economy – wants the bank to open a new investigation into its alleged support of the b...

May 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German students ban BDS on campus at Gutenberg University

For the second time this month, German students at a large university voted to reject the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) targeting the Jewish state, declaring BDS to be an antis...

April 16, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?

On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...

April 9, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

International Jewish NGOs urge German bank to stop enabling BDS

Leading establishment Jewish organizations in Europe, the United States and Israel called on the German Bank for Social Economy last week to pull the plug on its accounts held with groups that pr...

March 14, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Trevor Logan FDD Policy Brief

Turkey Abused Western Dual-Use Technology to Inject Spyware

Turkey’s leading internet service provider, Turk Telekom, in which the Turkish government...

August 25, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey Trumps Up the Charges against the Imprisoned U.S. Pastor

Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an emergency decree giving himself the authority to trade foreign citizens held in Tu...

August 14, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s economy: The next casualty of Erdoğan’s state of emergency

For the past year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has exploited his country’s state of emergency to rule by decree, purging government ranks, imprisoning political dissenters a...

August 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Deputy Mayor of Frankfurt Seeks To Ban ‘Deeply Antisemitic’ BDS

The deputy mayor of Frankfurt, Uwe Becker, submitted a bill on Wednesday that would ban municipal funds and space being used for activities that aim to boycott Israel. Becker, a leading...

August 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Specialized Unit For Political Extremism Investigates BDS Activists

A criminal complaint filed against three BDS activists who allegedly launched physical and verbal tirades at MK Aliza Lavie and an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust at a June event in Berlin has...

July 7, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran illegally seeking weapons tech from German firms, according to report

Iran is targeting German companies in its bid to advance its missile program, in possible violation of an international agreement, and at least on occasion with the aid of a Chinese company, acco...

June 29, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Vienna Hotel Cancels BDS Talk By South African Terrorism Financier

The Hotel Arcotel pulled the plug on a BDS event last week with Farid Esack, a South African Islamic theologian, who has raised money for a Palestinian terrorist. The planned talk titled...

June 22, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Activists Launch Tirade Against MK and Holocaust Survivor in Berlin

Anti-Israel activists disrupted on Tuesday a talk by MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid) at Humboldt University in Berlin, in what appears to be a second antisemitic attack at one of Germany’s most...

May 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Trump, Germany’s Merkel clash over trade, NATO and ‘Western values’

Germany and the U.S. emerged from Memorial Day weekend in a war of words, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partners attacked America’s reliability as a world power and Presiden...